Category: Markets

  • Ignore bonds at your own risk

    With narrower spreads between the yields offered for high-quality and low-quality bonds, investors should be sure they’re getting paid for the risks they’re taking – especially with what’s meant to be the safer side of their portfolio. Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Correction: Volatility has returned

    By Kyle Tetting This year is off to a strong start. Continued global growth and prospects from tax reform have raised expectations for corporate earnings. At the same time, each new release of economic data suggests more of the Goldilocks growth story (not too hot, not too cold) that has underlined the past few years.…

  • Valuing Investments: Price-Earnings Ratio

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    The price-earnings ratio helps put an objective value on investments, as Dave Sandstrom explains in a Money Talk Video.

  • Focus on fundamentals to face volatility

    Earnings and interest rates drive stocks in the long run, Steve Giles says, and investors should on those fundamentals, especially when markets are volatile, as they have been to begin 2016. Steve explains more in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Watch bonds as rates rise

    As the Federal Reserve gets closer to eventually raising interest rates, Steve Giles says investors should keep an eye on the durations of their bond holdings. Steve explains how rising rates affect bonds in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • This bull has legs

    By Bob Landaas April marks the fourth anniversary of the latest bull market. Those who aren’t bullish might feel sheepish to learn that the average bull market since World War II has been a little longer than four years. But bull markets don’t die of old age. They typically die because of speculative frenzy. They…